The Gun Safety Coalition of Maine wants to make it easier for family members to petition a court to take firearms away from loved ones deemed a danger to themselves or others.
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Records show a conflicted Gov. Mills under pressure over fate of gun waiting period
Emails and internal records shed new light on the pressure Gov. Janet Mills faced as she came to a decision not to veto the 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases.
Sen. King’s gun reform bill stalls in Congress
Despite being introduced last November in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting, the GOSAFE Act has not gotten a hearing in the Senate.
Supreme Court seems open to upholding regulations on ghost guns, hard-to-trace weapons linked to crime
The manufacturers and gun rights groups challenging the rule argued the Biden administration overstepped by trying to regulate kits for quickly making nearly untraceable guns at home.
Gun safety coalition launches campaign to get a red flag law on the Maine ballot
The effort comes after lawmakers failed to advance an extreme-risk protection order bill in the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston last October.
Sens. Collins, King co-sponsor bill requiring military to use state crisis intervention laws
The bill would require the armed services to utilize state laws, such as Maine’s yellow flag law, to disarm people who are a threat to themselves and others. It was introduced a little less than one year after the state’s deadliest mass shooting.
Life After Artie: Lewiston shooting victim’s father finds purpose in gun reform
Before his son was killed in the massacre last fall, Arthur Barnard hadn’t voted in decades, flown on a plane or met with U.S. senators. All of that has changed.
How to keep guns off Bourbon Street? Designate a police station as a school
The designation will instantly outlaw gun possession in the surrounding French Quarter area of New Orleans.
U.S. surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency
Dr. Vivek Murthy calls on the U.S. to ban automatic rifles, introduce universal background checks for purchasing guns, regulate the industry, pass laws that would restrict their use in public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store their weapons.
Republicans block bill to outlaw bump stocks after Supreme Court lifts Trump-era ban
The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., would ban the sale of the devices, similar to the rule issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.